Facilities and Safety

Welcome to Molecular and Cellular Biology Facilities and Safety Team

Justin Yamada
[email protected]
(530) 752-6353
3019 Esau Hall		Safety and Teaching Lab Coordinator

Facilites

Who should you contact? 

For the following tasks, please email Nena Herrera: 

  • Liaison to campus facilities trades and customer service
  • Coordinate equipment repairs with service vendors

For the following tasks, please email Justin Yamada: 

  • Ensure facilities and equipment are in good working order and addressing various repair needs

For the following tasks, please submit a maintenance request through Campus Facilities:

  • Custodial Services
  • Electrical, elevator & alarm systems
  • Mechanical systems such as ventilation, heating, air conditioning, sheet metal and refrigeration
  • Plumbing & hot water operations
  • Structural such as carpentry, flooring, pest control, locks/keys, painting and roofing

Need to Make a Facilities Service Request? 

  • Urgent Requests:
    Call our Customer Experience Center at: (530) 752-1655

    Urgent requests are issues that impact human/animal health and safety, threaten research, or affect instruction. 

  • Non-Urgent Request:
    Submit a work order:

    UC Davis Facilites Request

    Non-Urgent requests are non-threatening to life or research. Each non-urgent request will be assigned as "elevated" or "routine priority". 

Safety

Visit the UCOP Safety Suite for LHAT, chemical inventory and related UCOP-based programs.

UCOP Safety Suite 

Molecular and Cellular Biology Safety Documents:

  • Injury Illness Prevention Plan: The Injury & Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) reduces the risk of workplace injury and illness.
  • Initial Training: We help maintain a safe and healthy campus environment through education, risk management, and resources for personal, workplace and lab safety.
  • Heat Illness Prevention: UC Davis Departments with any outdoor places of employment must adhere to the Cal/OSHA Heat Illness Prevention Standard.
  • Emergency Action Plan: Cal-OSHA regulations require every employer to establish, implement, and maintain an Emergency Action Plan (EAP).
  • UCD Laboratory Safety Manual: The information provided in the UC Davis Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP) (formerly known as the Laboratory Safety Manual) has been compiled from a variety of sources.
  • Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Templates: Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) document the laboratory-specific procedures for the safe handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous chemicals. 

Training: 

  • UC Fundamentals of Laboratory Safety: Complete the UC Fundamentals of Laboratory Safety in the UC Learning Center.
  • Working with Radiation in the Lab: We provide inter-and intramural technical education programs in the areas of radiation safety, regulatory compliance, laboratory, medical, and accelerator health physics, radiological waste management, radiation biology, and risk assessment.
  • Working with Biologicals in the Lab: Work with biological agents or recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules requires a Biological Use Authorization. Biological Use Authorization can take approximately eight weeks to approve, from the date of submission.
  • Working with Lasers in the Lab: The UC Davis Laser Safety Program is intended to provide guidance for the safe use of lasers, laser systems and high intensity light sources to the campus community.
  • Cryogenic and autoclave training is dependent upon each lab.

New Hire Training:

  1. Complete the UC Fundamentals of Laboratory Safety in the UC Learning Center. 
    You must be in the LMS system.  If you are NOT in the LMS System, please contact Learning & Organizational Development and ask them to add you to the system so you can attend the lab safety courses. Make sure to provide to the lab position and give them your Kerberos username (DO NOT SEND YOUR PASSWORD). This may take 1-2 business days.
     
  2. Log in to Risk and Safety Solutions and review and acknowledge any hazard assessments for the lab(s) they are a member of. 
    *They must be added to the lab roster before they can complete this step.  The PI or lab manager can add them. 
     
  3. After completing the above, stay on the same screen.  Look under “Next Steps” at the bottom where you can complete your PPE Training.

Injury and Illness Reporting:

  • Injury Reporting: All staff and employees must use the online injury report.
  • Please be sure to report a Safety Incident or Concern within Molecular and Cellular Biology to [email protected]. 

Important SafetyNets

  • SafetyNet 9: Radioactive Waste Disposal Guidelines
  • SafetyNet 13: Guidelines for Chemical Spill Control
  • SafetyNet 31: Use of Refrigerators and Freezers in Laboratories
  • SafetyNet 37: Radioactive Spills, Splashes, and Decontamination
  • SafetyNet 61: How to Maintain an Inventory/Log for Radioactive Materials in Your Laboratory